¶ Why I Stopped Cussing
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I think you do . Today's show is entitled why I Stopped Cussing , and this is like a Ken and Tabitha classic . It is Because this is just gonna be authentically us .
It is .
Our experience , our revelation , our take on certain things from the Bible , and we're not here to tell people what to do . We're here to tell people what we've done .
I think we're very unique in that way , kind of unicorns .
I like to be unique . I don't like , and we call it cussing , because we're uniquely a little bit country and a little bit hood .
So my wife , for those of you all who don't know , grew up in a very small town called Union Town , pennsylvania , pa , in the house , and I grew up in the mountains of a small town called Beckley , west Virginia Beckley , and so we are a little bit country and a little bit hood A little bit hood and so we could have called and it's all good . Stop it .
We could have called this why we stopped using profanity , but that would be too proper . This is why I stopped cussing .
And go ahead . I was like , honestly , we didn't stop , we kind of never did .
Well , I think that's the what , is it Not the oxymoron ? That's kind of the play . That was really never our thing . Now I did a little bit here and there .
When .
I was rapping in certain songs in certain settings , but that wasn't really my thing . I have never heard you use one cuss word in your life . Have you heard me use one ? I did . I used one . I cussed you out one time .
You say that , but I do not remember you was cussing at yourself because Anyway .
So I've never heard her use one cuss word . We've been married 24 years everybody by the time you're listening to this and that's just not been our thing , and there's a reason why .
Yeah .
This is how our first date began . So , our first date , me and Tabitha was . January 16th or 17th 1998 , if memory serves me correctly . The reason I say January 16th or 17th is because we met on your birthday which is January 14th . And then that was probably on a .
It was a Wednesday night . I remember it was a Wednesday night and I probably asked you out by Friday .
So I'm going to say 15th , 16th , 16th or 17th .
Friday .
Saturday and we went to the Boston Beanery , Morgantown , West Virginia , and I hit it with a play of move y'all . I hit her the next day . You know how sometimes you try to be smooth and you meet somebody and you just want to give it up . You don't want to seem like you're pressed . I hit her in the morning the next day . Hey , good morning .
We met last night . Just want you to know it was a pleasure . We'd love to take you out to dinner .
I'm talking about some real I love that about you too , because everyone else was trying to be really cool Like they weren't that interested in you . Like you , it's a privilege that you go out with me , please . I like that you always like a front door kind of thing . And I think that's why we .
We matched so well , but anyway . So our first date Boston , beanery , morgantown , west Virginia . We're having a conversation . This is our first date and by the end of the conversation , somehow we got into a conversation about Cussing and I found out that you don't .
I don't remember this conversation . I don't remember .
It was like something that I thought was so unique about you , and so for me I said , well , me me , neither I don't cuss . I mean , I used to be a rapper and I was pretty much a clean rapper and so , anyway , I thought that was so interesting .
Matter of fact , it was almost confirmation to me that you were the one for me , because you wasn't like everybody else , like I had never met another woman at that time other than like my mom , that I felt like didn't use profanity .
And I just thought that that was something that felt pure and it felt good and it felt like you don't mind being different than everybody else . That's a track for me .
I think that's a nugget for anyone who's single , male or female , that sometimes we try to conform and be like everyone else . I know I went through a phase , a little bit , of being like man I should just cuss like everyone else cusses , or I should just do this like everyone else does , because I just wanted to fit in .
But listen , you don't have to fit in , you can be , you do what you like to do and that will be a sign . I mean , your wife or your husband they're gonna see that and be like oh , that's the one for me .
You got something in your eye that I want to get .
Okay for me , baby .
I think I might've got it . Thank , you . I think so lemme check here .
Don't put my eyelash out .
It's like it might be like makeup a little bit .
It's a good thing I don't have on falsies , because you did rip my whole . You took my whole lash off .
I did kind of pull hard , but because it's kind of still on there , I mean it's not bad . It's not bad . I mean it's just like it might be just taking up a makeup . It is , is it makeup ? Is it black ? It's kind of like brownish though . Oh really , but I think we should just go with it . Okay , because I don't feel like stopping . All right .
All right , thank you guys for tuning in . Still , praise God , but anyway , let me .
¶ The Power of Words
So why didn't you ? And we're going to use the word cuss , if you don't mind , if some people call it curse , some people call it profanity , let's just use cuss , cuss , we hush . Why didn't you cuss back then ?
I think . Well , my mom didn't cuss when she was sober . Now , if she would drink she would cuss up a storm . But so I think from a young age I was taught like by my mom that cussing wasn't good and that cussing was bad , and I always wanted to be a good girl . I just wanted to follow the rules , and the rules were don't cuss .
In school you weren't allowed to cuss Like this is what you didn't do , and so I just always wanted to follow the rules and so I think that just defined me Like I just I didn't cuss because I wasn't supposed to , and then so I never developed a habit and so then also .
So that's the first reason why I did , and the second reason is because I had been surrounded with so many people who did cuss and mean people in my life and I mean they would just . I mean I was verbally abused at home people yelling , screaming , fighting , and they would just cuss and call you every kind of name .
It was so demeaning , so degrading and it made them look like a fool . It made them look like they were the meanest , nastiest person and I never wanted to be like that and it marked me . I'm not gonna be like that and I never did it .
Well for me at a young age , so I gotta say , when I was 11 , but for 10 years I kind of lived as a Christian atheist . I defined that as a person I believed in God , but I didn't live fully for him . And I remember I played basketball and that's kind of normal basketball locker room talk like middle school , high school .
Everybody's just saying whatever , and I remember I would say freakiness and I would try to make up stuff and actually it was very , very , very corny .
But what had happened was early on I can't remember exactly when there was somebody that I looked up to and they said that the reason that people use profanity is because their vocabulary isn't extensive enough to be able to express themselves without using vulgarity . Basically , and I , just as a young man , said you know what ? I'm smarter than that .
I'm gonna have a wide vocabulary , I'm gonna be able to express myself and get my point across without needing to be profane , and I just kind of lodged that it does matter what people say to kids . And secondly , my parents wasn't big cussers . I only remember hearing my dad cuss one time . Never remember hearing my mom cuss .
He was coaching my AAU basketball team and we were getting blown out the gym . After him he was like you need to move your A's down to the court and I was like , oh shoot , did Coach Clayton only time ever , and I think it just slipped out . Yeah , it was so hilarious , but I was older kid , I was like sex 16 , 17 .
You were in shock and we were Coach Clayton . Just it was so funny . That's hilarious .
And so I know those are shallow reasons . I know it , you know , and now you know . But I got a little deeper later on but for me . I would say this I feel like cussing folk out , like the next man I do .
There's times where I'm like you know especially in traffic or time where things are intense , there are some choice words that I would love to give to somebody . There are times that I would even feel like , ooh , this will be a funny interjection , like I'm a pastor , by looking at myself as a comedian pastor , and sometimes I'm like man .
It would be a great punch line here , but I've never done that . I haven't used a cuss word in over 21 , 22 years and so , through all the life's ups and downs , stubbing my toe and everything , I've just decided to remove that from my vocabulary , and I'll explain why .
But you're not even thinking cuss words , though , because if you think the cuss words , you just I think you're gonna say the cuss words Like I don't even I don't stub my toe and think a cuss word .
I normally do not think cuss words , but every once in a while I find myself in a season where I do , and I don't know why . It's so funny about you . You never knew that because you're not living in my head .
I never knew that , but Not a lot though .
I can go for a long time and I'm not thinking cuss words , but then I think it's music , something that I've listened to music will trigger it , and then you just wide open for cuss words . Now I'm just wide open to my mind , cussing everybody out . But that's not my normal thing , cause I do believe what you're saying . If you continue to meditate on that .
The scripture says as a man thinketh in his heart , so is he . So I believe thoughts kind of first start in your mind and we're supposed to bring the thoughts into obedience of Christ .
But if you keep meditating on them and if you start , you know , like getting your heart what's in your heart is gonna come out of your mouth , and abundant , so it's not a good place to be , and so , anyway , once again , we're not giving this cause . I got a lot of cussing friends . I really do . I got a lot of people that I love .
I do too .
I got a lot of people that I respect . I got people that are pastors , I got people who have theology degrees , but they'll give you a little something here and there .
So I'm not here to say that anybody's the devil , anybody's wrong or anybody's a sinner , but I am here to speak my truth , and I think our truth , for us has been that's not a part of our life , and there's reason , and it's not just a decision that I made , it's a decision that we've sustained , and I wanna continue that the rest of my life , because I
believe when I control my tongue , I control my life , and the words that I speak have much more weight and eternal impact than you would ever know . And so , out of this same mouth , I wanna be able to raise the dead , call down fire from heaven , and I don't want bitter and sweet waters coming out of the same fountain .
And so we got a few scriptures to share with people today . And my hope is that people will be like yo . I never thought about it that way . Maybe I should practice what Ken and Tabitha does , or maybe not .
I don't care . I would say , especially the people like we have kids and our kids are all getting in their teenage years now , and even as a parent , I never wanna ask my kids to do something that I don't do . And so if I'm gonna ask my kids , oh , don't say that word . Why would I say that word ?
So if it's something that they can't do is if it's impure for them , why wouldn't it be impure for me ? I just wanna be an example , like my children have never heard mom or dad do this and therefore I don't do this or I've said that .
I think that the thought for those people would be when they're become adults , 18 or so they can do whatever they wanna do . It's kind of like drinking , so when you're 21, .
It's an adult thing to do .
And I don't believe that . I believe , as a believer , there should be a guard that we have on our mouth . Now let's explain a few things . While I'm gonna go through a couple of scriptures , all right , I want you to tell me what you get out of it . Proverbs 18 , 21, .
It says that death and life are in the power of the tongue , and those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof . What sticks out to you from that ?
Death and life are in the power of the tongue . Those that love it will eat the fruit thereof .
What does that mean ?
Well , because you have , what you say produces fruit . And so if what I say , I need to guard and discipline my mouth , discipline what I say , in order to produce the kind of fruit that I want . I like that .
So go ahead .
So if I want positive things , I say positive things out of my mouth , and now is it concerning a curse word or a cuss word or something like that ? If you're saying negative words , you know there's fruit from it .
Well , let's look at the principle . The principle is that there's power in your mouth .
Yes .
And I think that people are using their power all over the place . Yeah , no , it does matter what you say . And I think that's the point For the life and death is in the power of the tongue . That's the point .
That's the point is when I pray and when I'm being intentional with my words , calling down , you know , just praying so that heaven is moved , Healing , deliverance , all of those kinds of things I want heaven in hell to know . I know what I'm saying . I mean what I'm saying . Heaven backs me up in this .
I don't want it to be like oh well , you say that about everything , you just say this , you say that , you say what ? No , I mean what I say .
And I think that we grew up with a background to where there is a discipline in the words that I speak . I want to speak with great intentionality , purpose and direction .
¶ Accountability and Power of Words
So Matthew 12 and 36 , tell me what you think about this one . It says but I say to you that for every idle word men may speak , they will give an account of it in the day of judgment . For by the words you will be justified , by your words you'll be justified , and by your words you'll be condemned . What sticks out to you in that one ?
Well , it takes away the saying that . Oh well , that just it doesn't mean anything . It's just a word , I just said it . That would be an idle word and that would mean that you're accountable for every idle word . So there are no idle words . Every word means something .
I mean , there are idle words . That's why it says don't use idle words . But I know what you're saying at the same time . Like your words do mean something .
In my under yeah .
But let me define what idle is . Idle basically means non-operative , wasted words , words with no purpose and no power . So when you use those words , they're considered idle . But what the scripture is teaching us is that even the idle words , you'll give an account thereof in the day of judgment .
So quick Bible facts at the end of the days , at the end of our life , at the end of the ages there's gonna be two judgment seats That'll be the judgment seat of Christ and the great white throne judgment . You don't wanna be at the great white throne judgment . The great white throne judgment is the judgment seat for unbelievers .
Okay , it's where they're gonna be called up and given account of their rejection of Jesus , the good and evil they've done in their body , and then them and hell is gonna be cast into the lake of fire for eternity . The judgment seat of Christ is where all of us Christ followers are gonna go .
The thing that I want people to know is that all of us will have to give an account . We will stand at one of two judgments . If you are an unbeliever , you'll be at the great white throne judgment . If you are a believer , you still have to give an account , but you will do it not to condemnation , but to reward or the loss thereof .
And so what it's saying is that every idle word that man shall speak , they will give an account . That means that those nonoperative words we're not just talking about profanity , it's the words like well , I just can't get ends to meet and it just seems like I can't get a break and it just seems like I'm out of luck .
Okay , be careful , because those are wasted , nonoperative words without purpose . And so I guess what the revelation is and we got this years ago that your mouth is like one of the greatest weapons that God has given you to speak and to declare things until they are established . And you got to be very disciplined on how you use the weapon of your words .
Anything else on that one .
No , that's good .
And so Ephesians 4 and 29, . Listen to this one . It says do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth , but only what is helpful for building of us up according to their needs , that it may benefit those who listen . What sticks out to you ? Ephesians 4 , 29 , what did you ?
get . Well , I thought about Jesus when you were saying that . You know what I mean . Like Jesus , we have all of these words written in red in our Bible when we read them right , all of these words that Jesus said . And there's never a time where Jesus said idle words .
There's never a time when he was just like blankety , blank , blank or just said you're so stupid , you're so , you know like . He just didn't do that , he was very intentional . Even when he flipped over the tables of the money changers , he's you know , he would talk to the Pharisees and the Sadducees and say you , brood of vipers .
He wasn't just , you know , frivolous with his words , he was intentional , you know , giving us words of life and death . You know what I mean . And so I think I don't know I just what would Jesus do ? Right , right .
So this word unwholesome talk , and it says let no unwholesome talk Do you know what it means .
Unwholesome is like unclean .
It comes from a Greek word which means rotten or foul , and it was originally referred to as fruits and vegetables , and so what it's saying is that don't let unwholesome like rotten , foul language . You know , I just feel like people nowadays . They want to debate so many things and some things .
It's like I'm just going to stay out of the gray Like , yeah , you can . You can go and cuss and use profanity if you want to . And people say well , this S word ain't in the Bible and the F word ain't in the Bible , and men just made that up . But unwholesome talk .
Is it idle ?
Does it breathe death or life ?
Okay , Maybe if it's a gray area and we can debate it , I would rather just put it on the altar and say for me , I'm going to come up with other words to express myself than to play around with something that's foul or what the scripture calls as rotten , and so I guess what we're saying today is I would ask our audience you know , we kind of look at
this as like a mentorship podcast , you know , and there are some people that aren't interested in that , and it's okay with me , they can just keep on going , you know , keep listening to something else .
But then there's a whole lot of people that are like thank you for providing an example for us in marriage , thank you for sharing your life with us , and I think that's what this podcast is about . We're not trying to create robots , but we are trying to share the revelation that God has given us and how we make this whole thing work .
Yeah .
For those of you all that bears witness with this , I would challenge you to put your book of cuss on the altar . I mean , give yourself like a 90 day challenge to not cuss . All right , some of y'all couldn't do that . Give yourself a 30 day challenge for the next 30 days .
I am going to try to express myself , whether it be anger or delight , in a way that will only bring forth fruit and move heaven towards my direction . Just be disciplined enough , give yourself a 30 day challenge . If you can't stop cussing for 30 days , something wrong , something wrong . You need some self control .
Come on , we got to go back to the fruit of the spirit , I mean for 30 days , and then for 30 days you figure out . You know what . That's not that big of deal . You might extend it and do it another 60 days or 90 days and all of a sudden you're alive , like we did for many things in our life that maybe it's permissible , but not wise .
Maybe it's something that I really don't need in my life because it's not producing anything .
Right .
Good or glorious . You know what do you think about that ?
I mean , I like it all , you know , just being accountable for what we say . I personally , I love prayer .
Yeah .
And I just feel like it's just something special that the Lord has given me . I feel like an and , even when I don't know I want to say this with humility but when there's been words prophesied over my life and to me , very often it's heaven hears your voice .
Whenever you speak , heaven is listening and , like I said , it's it's going to make me cry , talking about it or saying that you are an interceder and talking , and it's always toward prayer in my voice .
And when I open up my mouth and I think that someone now got to give this to you , you know whatever , but I think that God , if I say thank you , Lord , that you've given me this power in prayer , I can say that maybe he's found me accountable , that I will be accountable to the words that I say yeah , and there , therefore , maybe there is a weight ,
there's more weight on the words that I say yeah , because I mean what I say yeah . And so I think , for anyone who just wants to be closer to God , you feel like , no , I want to go to another level in your prayer life .
I want to acknowledge the Holy Spirit with me at all times , like I don't want to grieve the spirit by just popping out any word , you know , and then I expect like , oh you know , when I call on Jesus , he's just going to be there . You know ? I just I don't know , and what I'm saying is just all theory .
I mean , I'm just saying that there are some people that maybe they want to go to another level , like that .
I don't think it's theory . I think we've already given a few structures , that is challenging concerning what's coming out of our dog on mouth . I just you know I'm just saying because I know a lot of people That's- what I'm saying .
I know a lot of people who are blessed and anointed in Holy .
Listen , no let me just keep it real . I know people that have great platforms and they would not say certain things on the platform privately . You know , just in joking blankety blank , blankety blank . And I think it's cool . I love you and everything , but I don't think it doesn't change my opinion about you at all .
It's not at a high level , though , right , and I just want to be honest , that's not very high level conversation . To me , that's very low level . I can go to the bar and get that conversation .
But what if people just want to be real and keep it real and be vulnerable and transparent ?
I can express myself , be vulnerable and transparent , without profanity , without using idleness , without using unwholesome talk without using course joking .
What if you use it just so that you say you know what ? But I'm trying to minister to people and I just want them to let their hair down and know that they can , you know that's the same theory that I need to drink to let my hair out Like I need to drink a little bit . So the real me can come out .
Well , if I need to drink for the real me to come out , well then I don't even know who the real me is any longer . So the real me is dead . The real me is dead and I'm hitting in Christ Jesus and the life that I live .
I live by the faith and the Son of God , who live for me and died for me , and so what I'm trying to do is I think there's different baptisms here there's the sanctification and the baptism of your spirit , your soul , your body , your pocketbook , your checkbook , but also your tongue , and I don't think that we fully have grasped how important what we say is
Jesus said it this way . He says my words are spirit and life . They're not spirit and death , they're spirit and life . They're not spirit and idleness . So there's a scripture where it talks about how you have what you say and I'm not saying that I'm going to go out into the parking lot and say , mercedes , come or house . That's not what I'm saying .
But what you say is releasing an atmosphere spiritually . So you need to have a governor on what you say Absolutely , and so for those people and I know , I know people that are like super , what is the word ?
When you are one of those motivational speakers and it's like many of them say , well , I use this kind of language just to get an emotion out of my audience , my challenge for you would be can you use other language to get that rise out of your audience ? That's like even comedians .
I think some of the funniest people I can't listen to right now because their comedy is laced all with profanity and it's just beneath , like my intellectual level .
To me it brings you the intellect .
I have to go down so low I gotta go down so low because you're speaking to me like a barbarian . You're speaking to me like you haven't been educated at all . You're speaking to me like just if you add an F or S on the thing , that makes it more funny and I'm like no life is funny Like talk about your baby , talk about being at the airport .
That's why I enjoy comedians like Sinbad or Bill Cosby before the fall Seinfeld .
Seinfeld , who doesn't use a lot of profanity because their comedy is laced in real life , which doesn't have to be profane , and some of the funniest people that I think are naturally funny I don't even listen to . They have a Netflix special and it comes out . It's always TVMA , it's always super mature ,
¶ The Power of Words
cause . Every word out of your mouth is cuss , cuss , cuss cuss and my word would be like you're more talented than that . You are more gifted than that . Can you bring it up here ?
As a believer , as someone who does not cuss , I can't listen to that because I don't like to get it in my soul . You know what I mean ? Cause I don't want to go around stub my toe and be like blankety blank . I don't want to do that , so I don't allow myself to listen to it . We're not even gonna get on the topic of music .
You know what I mean .
But there's all of these things that we put into our soul . But here's what I found out not being a cusser , like in college with all of my friends , like when people would be people didn't know that I didn't cuss , and like it would come up every once in a while . Well , tab doesn't cuss . And people would argue with me . Yes , she does . No .
I don't ?
Yes , she does . I know you cuss before I know I know I heard you Like people don't , even so , like they were my friends and I had no problem relating to them , connecting with them , whatever they didn't even know . I didn't cuss , I didn't have cause . I don't have to use cuss words or profanity to be able to relate and to connect to people .
Yeah , there's a guy that I do business with and we do business all the time , I mean all the time , and just like when we're together . He probably cusses 15 times when we're together , just in random stuff . I mean just just . It's just in his common language .
You know , and I think maybe a couple of years I might have mentioned ago , I mentioned to him , but now I'm just like , well , if you you've kind of been rolling with me for a while and if that's how you want to be , that's how you want to be , I'm not going to try to go and I guess that's what you were .
Very I feel like you want to make sure that our audience knows that we're not judging people or telling people how to live . I feel a responsibility to be an example of what people can aspire to if they so desire .
And along with that , I feel the responsibility also to say , when people say , tabitha , pastor , tabitha , how do you , you know , how'd you get to the point where you are spiritually in your growth , in your connection that you have with God ? I want you to know everything that .
I do . I'm not leaving any of the ingredients out on this podcast .
By the way , I mean what I say . I'm very intentional with my words . I don't really talk like that .
My words mean something ? I don't . I never cussed you out . You don't even remember me cussing . One time I remember , in the first year of our marriage , I used the cuss word towards you . I've never shook in you , I've never grabbed you , I've never hit you , I've never slapped you . I want to give every ingredient Never cussed you . Don't cuss other people .
I've never haven't used the cuss word in over 20 years . I'm not all that , I'm just . I've just disciplined my tongue . And I'll give you a scripture that really just changed me James , chapter three . It says this in verse number three when we put bits in the mouth of a horse to make them obey us , we can turn the whole animal .
Or take ships , for an example Although they're so large and are driven by strong winds , they're steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go . Likewise , the tongue is a small part of the body , but it makes a great boast . Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark .
The tongue is also a fire , a world of evil among the parts of the body . It corrupts the whole body , sets the whole course of one's life on fire and itself is set on fire by hell . All kinds of animals , birds , reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind , but no human being can tame the tongue .
It's a restless evil full of deadly poison . With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father , and with the tongue we curse human beings who've been made in God's likeness . Out of the same mouth come praise and cursings .
My brothers and sisters , this should not be Wow , and so for anybody who might wanna argue us , I would just say check out James three and just let the Lord lead you , but there's just so much in that . I mean , it says this it says that no human being can tame the tongue .
I think it's so interesting that after you get saved , the next thing is you need to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and God will give you the ability to pray in other tongues . That he is interested with getting control of your tongue Because when he gets your tongue , he gets your life .
Listen , there's a story in the Bible . It's about Zachariah , the father of John the Baptist . An angel comes to him before Elizabeth gets pregnant . His wife , elizabeth , can't get pregnant . She doesn't have a child . They're both old and age . An angel visits him and says you're gonna have a son . He's gonna be amazing , awesome , all of these things .
Don't cut his hair . He's only gonna eat this kind of stuff and everything right . And so Zachariah , kind of he's in doubt , he doesn't believe him and he says but how is this gonna happen ? Because she's old and I'm old . And the angel says back to him because you doubted , you're going to not be able to speak until this baby is born , right ?
And so Zachariah goes . He can't talk the whole time during the pregnancy . And now , why did that happen ?
Because I think it's because of this , because it was the weight of his words and the importance of Zachariah's words that , if he's kept doubting and speaking , doubt over this baby , god needed this to come to pass , because he already prophesied it in the Old Testament .
God needed this prophecy to come to pass and for John the Baptist to be born so that Jesus and everything could take place . But the angel shut Zachariah's mouth so that he could not curse and so that he could not speak negative things over the birth of John the Baptist , and I just think that speaks to the power of what we say .
If it's not good , don't say it .
I don't really know that story . I would have to go back and read that but man that is amazing .
He could not speak .
It reminded me there's a scripture in the New Testament that says you have whatever you say . I think it's talking about how I can't remember exactly where it is , but it ends . I think it's talking about speaking to a mountain . If you say to the mountain , be removed and be cast into the sea .
And do not doubt in your heart you'll have .
whatever you say is basically how it stops . There's power in your words and some people will take it for granted . Well , that just doesn't mean that you can just say whatever . Well , believe whatever you want to believe .
But then we go back to the idle words . The words don't mean anything . Yes , they do , they do mean something .
I mean , there was something that- .
You'll be accountable for every idle word . Yeah .
Oh , I can't think what I was thinking about that , but yeah , there's something to the realization that we've gotten hold of that . What we say does matter . Anything else come to your mind on that ?
No , but it actually having this conversation really has stirred me up . I kind of feel like a little passionate in my belly , Like I just want to go . It encourages me to speak life . I remember what it is now .
Okay so , and that's why I want our audience to know we crazy like we crazy faith . I mean that's just we . Just we gonna believe God for some crazy . We're the kind of people that if I'm having a barbecue and it's cloudy outside , I will go outside , speak to the clouds and say clouds . I command you to keep your reign in the name of Jesus .
Sun come out right now and go for a little bit in the clouds with move . I'm not saying I'm batting 10 out of 10 , but I'm saying like 80% of the time tell , don't you think 80% of the ? Time , if I really want the sun to come out or something that . And what I'm saying is some people say , oh , that's just a coincidence .
No , I believe God's giving us dominion , he's giving us authority , there's power in our world . Listen , I'm coming from that . I'm not trying to come at your cussing , I'm just saying that there's power in the world .
Our 12 year old son sat in the backseat yesterday . I forgot to tell you you ain't gonna like it . But I put the car on , the car would push the button , the car would not stop start . And I did it like two more times . And then I said , and Kenny said , oh well , he's in the backseat talking . I said , in the name of Jesus , I command you to start .
And I put my hand over and I pushed that button hill and it said and it came on and I just left it like that . I forgot to even tell you about it . But I'm not doing that like a hope and a praying that if this happened , no , I'm just declaring my word . Some angel went and started that up for me . I know it .
Believe whatever you want to believe . We just believe that there's life and death in the power of our tongue . And when the Bible tells me that life do you know what life is ? And death is in the power of my tongue , I believe it . When it says you have whatever you say .
When it says let no unwholesome idol talk come out of your mouth , I don't know , about you . I take it serious . That's beyond my joking , that's beyond my green room talk . That's beyond me trying to be cool with everybody else and trying to be relevant .
I don't need to be that relevant .
I am not trying to be like the world to win the world . I want to be more like the kingdom , and the world is attracted to the kingdom .
That's how I feel about it . You know what I just thought . Sometimes we can use it , doesn't have to be a cuss word , but it's still unwholesome talk like gossip like murmuring and complaining .
Like .
I'll always preaching about my kids and myself . Sometimes I'll come down and just be like , well , this and that and this and that , and it's not cuss words , but it's murmuring and complaining and it's an unwholesome talk like shut your mouth , and so I think all of that goes in the same boat .
What would it be like if we went to work and we just spoke life ? What would happen if we go home and just speak life over our children and prophesy over dead bones and say live again . What would happen in every atmosphere if we knocked down gossip and slander and murmur and idle words and profane words and all these kinds of things ? And we just was .
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